Josh More cried from the depths of the abyss...

> Ext4 effectively does a block-level wipe when you do a delete. (Makes
> forensics difficult.)  Odds are that your "rm" command has removed the
> file pointers, but the kernel has not yet completed scrubbing the
> disk.  I would expect the space to become free once that process is
> done.
>

Understood.  Would the kernel scrubbing cause disk 
activity?  I do not see any disk activity at the moment.

Thanks!

Mr. B-o-B